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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2006
Roy L. Testerman, New Hope, MN (US);
Jon P. Davis, Saint Michael, MN (US);
Nathan Andrew Torgerson, Andover, MN (US);
Robyn Lee Jagler, Eagan, MN (US);
James Britton Hissong, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Roy L. Testerman, New Hope, MN (US);
Jon P. Davis, Saint Michael, MN (US);
Nathan Andrew Torgerson, Andover, MN (US);
Robyn Lee Jagler, Eagan, MN (US);
James Britton Hissong, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Medtronic Xomed, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Abstract
Artificially stimulated deglutition methods and systems including providing a portable system born by a user for controlling a component of a complete swallowing act without substantial aspiration. The system includes a controller, a signal generator, and a subcutaneously positioned electrode array with at least one electrode. The electrode array is subcutaneously positioned and is operated to stimulate a single deglutition muscle where the single deglutition muscle is the only deglutition muscle directly artificially stimulated via the electrode array during the complete swallowing act. Systems and methods of nerve stimulation and selective nerve stimulation are also provided to artificially stimulate deglutition.